Italy bans unvaccinated children from school

Unvaccinated children in Italy banned from preschool under new law

Ben Pena
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14 March, 2019, 19:37

Older children can attend school without being fully vaccinated, but parents face fines of 100 to 500 euros (C$151-754), and local health authorities will then schedule vaccinations for the children to make sure they get caught up.

Much like OR and Washington, Italy has been experiencing a measles outbreak due to unvaccinated children. Italian media report that regional authorities are handling the situation in a number of different ways.

Newly released figures show that Italy is nearing, and in some regions has already reached, a national immunization rate of 95 per cent, the World Health Organization's target.

According to the Times, the current Italian government is working on a confusing plan to introduce "flexible obligation", in which immunization would only be mandatory if rates dipped below herd immunity levels. His immune system was compromised as he was recovering from leukaemia.

Writing in a Facebook post on Monday, Ms Grillo admitted it "is a law that, at the time of approval, we criticised for several reasons" - and said that the law would be changed to include only those vaccinations that were necessary based on scientific data.

Mr Wakefield was struck off the United Kingdom medical register after fraudulently claiming there was a link between the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine (MMR) and autism and bowel disease in children.

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Measles is a disease that can lead to serious complications, such as pneumonia (infection of the lungs), and even death. One child with measles walking through a school will pretty much infect every other susceptible person in that school.

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